Mark Haddon Quotes

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 26, 1962

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Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

Jenny Nimmo

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Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New Yorkers have with Chinese cuisine.

Andrew Cherng

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

Jean Dujardin

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Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

John Stossel

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I'm an international baby. I'm happy my parents decided I should be worldwide.

Stefflon Don

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I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.

Spike Jonze

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.

Milos Forman

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Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Louis A. Johnson

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From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.

Jean Charest

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You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

Don Lemon

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